A Trip Through Haunting Photos of World History

A picture can say a thousand words…

The gallery below is a selection of photos throughout our history, which capture moments in time that tell the evolving story of humanity. Each image continues to evolve along with our conscious awareness of the impact left behind, and these little known stories of our story, have left us speechless.

At a segregated lunch counter in Tennessee, Elvis Presley is waiting for his bacon and eggs while a woman waits for her sandwich. she is not permitted to sit. 1956

A child, blinded by the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. 1945

Kindergarten teacher Helen Hulick who was a witness to a burglary, was given a five day sentence and sent to jail for contempt only for wearing pants to court to give her testimony. Los Angeles, California 1938

Onlookers reaction to the Challenger explosion. 1986

Stripper in Clearwater, Florida showing the judge that her bikini briefs were too large to expose her vagina to the undercover cops that arrested her. The case was dismissed.

Anti miniskirt sentiment in New York City. 1966

The first known picture of the Taj Mahal. 1855

A 1930 photo from the Statue of Liberty’s torch.

Teddy Roosevelt was the first president to fly. 1910

Young John Wayne.

A German child trying to sell his father’s Iron Cross for cigarettes, 1945

The oldest known documented wheelie, 1936

A child’s gas mask during WW2

Adolf Hitler tells a frostbitten soldier not to salute him (year unknown)